![]() ![]() The “Assimilated Sonic” trend, where people drew all sorts of interpretations for what would happen if the corruption on Sonic’s arm spread to the rest of him.Theorists bursting at the seams with all the new content, Sonamy fans also bursting at the seams because those two haven’t meaningfully interacted in a While, people being terrified for Tails because at this point we’ve only seen Amy and Knuckles.The hype reaching a breaking point as we finally get a story-based trailer people were losing their minds over big things like the new villain and Sonic’s arm glitching out, along with small things like Sonic actually using his eyebrows to emote in-game for the first time since approximately 2008.The uproar over them reusing the Forces model for Sonic.Like genuinely I cannot emphasize enough the amount of people wanting to be hyped but being held back by intense dread because of Forces (and other 2010s games usually).The return of “it’s GOTTA be good or else Sonic will die” only with even more fear after Forces.Day ?: A Nintendo Direct gives us the first actually well-marketed trailer for the game so far and public reception is going way up as more people are realizing just how much previous marketing was affecting the game’s perception.Day Three(?): we get an early review for the game from IGN, and to many people’s surprise, it’s quite positive. Day Two: we get another six minutes of Sonic fighting random enemies for a while, and YouTube is slowly starting to warm up to it. Day One: we get 7 minutes of Sonic running around the first island aimlessly and most people on YouTube tear it apart.Another round of mostly-dead silence and rumors before the absolute eruption in June of 2022.“Well you see if you rotate the symbols like this, they look like they could be a part of a Sonic Rangers logo”.People datamining the video and finding text that read “PS/Rangers” and “Time_Warp_sfx”.“Shadow the Hedgehog 2” trending on twitter for some reason.Everyone clamoring to figure out what the symbols meant, some saying it looked like the word “up,” some saying it looked like the word “zap,” and still others joking that it was shaped like a gun.The first teaser giving us zero context for anything about the game, only showing Sonic running through a forest with some cool particle effects and some random symbols.Some people thought it was for a new game, others thought it was for the Sonic Colors remake that was leaked earlier, and some thought it was for an Adventure remake.The “Unstoppable” trailer for Sonic’s 30th anniversary showing a 2 second clip of Sonic running that’s never been seen before and the wild guessing about what it was.The game being leaked as far back as July 2020 and again in January 2021 without anyone realizing it.The dead silence regarding the next mainline game between the release of Forces in 2017 and the teaser for Frontiers in 2021.
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